The College of Arts and Architecture at Penn State is committed to artistic and scholarly creativity, research, and the preparation of specialized practitioners in all of the arts and design disciplines.

The Center for Pedagogy in Arts and Design (C-PAD), a partnership between the College of Arts and Architecture and Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT), announces its inaugural Discovery Grant recipients and Innovators-in-Residence (see list below)....

The Office of Digital Learning in the College of Arts and Architecture is pleased to announce its summer course offerings. During the two summer semesters, students can discover or reconnect with their passions for art, music, design, and many other related...

The College of Arts and Architecture has launched an Arts and Design Entrepreneurship Faculty Teaching Fellows Program in order to leverage and engage the expertise of faculty in the college and increase the impact of the Arts Entrepreneurship program.
Over...

Lisa Domenica Iulo is continuing the Hamer Center for Community Design’s strong record of success in collaborative outreach projects as its new director. Iulo, Penn State associate professor of architecture, has been serving in that role since July. The...

When Art History doctoral candidate Janet Purdy left a lucrative career as a designer in Chicago to attend graduate school and pursue a career researching African art, she knew that she was taking a chance. What she had not...

Francisco Montero began preparing for his career as a pianist when most kids his age were mastering reading, writing, and arithmetic.
“I have enjoyed performing since I was 7 and have known since then that this was my...

A summer tour wasn’t enough for Straight No Chaser. After releasing the “Six Pack: Volume 3” EP in July, the nine-member vocal ensemble embarked on its “Speakeasy Tour” with a cappella versions of rock and pop hits by Beyoncé,...

Sixty works exploring the complex story of plastic—from drawings and photographs to video installations and sculptures fabricated from found plastic—will be featured in Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials, on view at the Palmer...

The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State presents “Plastics@thePalmer,” a diverse series of artist lectures, films, gallery talks and “entangled conversations” with scholars as part of the exhibition “Plastic Entanglements: Ecology...

The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State is pleased to announce its schedule of exhibitions for 2018. Dominated by three major contemporary shows, the lineup also highlights the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American painters and printmakers, Pop...

Congratulations to Professor Velvet Brown, who has been named one of Penn State's newest Distinguished Professors, the highest honor awarded to faculty members.
Brown is professor of tuba and euphonium at Penn State. Prior to...

Follow the thin blue line. Those who do will discover the nooks and crannies of Millvale, a small community just outside Pittsburgh. The public art project, conceived by Ann Tarantino, aims to bring life and energy back to the town, which was devastated by a...

Alvin Snowiss, a longtime supporter of the Palmer Museum of Art along with his late wife, Jean, have donated three significant works of art to the museum. The paintings greatly enhance the Palmer’s already...

Completing an arts or design degree is much more like a marathon than a sprint. And Rob and Gina Narracci hope to help students get across the finish line.
The Narraccis, who earned their architecture degrees at Penn State, have...